Water-distributer for urinal-slabs.



0. P. CADMUS.

WATER DISTRIBUTER FOR URINAL SLABS.

AVAILABLE COPY O. P. GADMUS. WATER DISTRIBUTER FOR URINAL sLABs.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 10,1911.

1,059,343; y Patented Apr. 22, 1913.

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- ATTUR/VEYS t-he distributer in the direction of its longirtudinal axisresults in inequality inthe flow of Water on the surface of the slab,parts thereof receiving more than the necessary amount andothers`receiving little and being practicallyunvvetted. y This is particularlyapt to be the case When theflovv of water through the pipe 7 begins,there'being `at such time a tendency to a superabundant flow at theportion of thek distributer near Y the point of connection ofthe supplypipe.

Furthermore, evenfafter the lflovv in the pipe 7 is established there isa tendency to uneven distribution thereafter which can only belcompensated kfor in part by suitable gradua-l tion or other arrangementof the openings in the distributer, as already explained.l

The first-named tendency to uneven dis-l tribution on the slab iscounteracted in my invention by delivering the Water from thedistributer into a spreader chamber from .which it kmay flow to outletsspreading lthe Watenupon the slab. To further insure uniformdistribution. the openings from the distributer'are arranged to directtheir stream or streams -in the mannerrshown against a spreader plateWithin the spreader chamber,

which plate is by preference a ,Wall of the chamber itself. k f

In the operation of this class of devices it n is ordinarily 'desirablethat the supply of Water should be intermittent and of short durationbut should bev somewhat prolonged upon the surface ofthe slab, andforthis reason it is preferable thatthe pipe -7 should feed into thechambers-at such a rate that the -same Will fillLor partly fill, 'inWhichr'case after ythe supply is shut off Wiater Will floW from thechamber and .be spread for some time upon the surface of the slab.

The surface vupon which thedistributer delivers the Water maybe anysurface .Within the spreader chamber, but is preferably i the innersurface of a Wall thereof.'

I do not limit myselfto any particular form of distributer nor to yanyparticular means for causing itk to deliver Water in suby stantiallyuniform amount through the or manner of Supporting the spreader chamber.` The supply .to the pipe 7 may be controlled and made'intermittentby any-desired means as for instance by a valve typified as 10 andoperated, constructed or controlled in any desired manner, Also itis tobeunderstood thatl the delivery `o-f Water from the spreader chamberuponthe surface of the f slab mayy bey by anymeans for causing the y iWater passing therefrom `to-flovv on thel back A slab as a thin sheet.

As Will be seen, .WhatI call thespreader chamber, operates in effect tomodify they Vaction of the distributernWhichV receives the l Water-under:the headvvvith Whichit is delivered by pipe 7 .and to'cause it to' flowwith diminished head fand in a uniformlydistributed conditionover thesurface of the.

back slab.

What I claim as my invention is: In a, urinal, `a Water-holding;spreader chamber consistingof a trough a side Wall' of `Which consistsof a portion of theback plate or slab of the urinal, and having itslovveredgeserrated and enga-ged vvith' the lface of said slab, and itsupper edgel engaged in a Water-tight mannerf With the face of plates' ofa compartment. a

said slab While its ends are supported linz a Water-tight manner againstdividing or side` Signed at NeWAYork in the county of New York and Stateof New York'this 27th day of JuneAJ'D. 1911.'

y oscann oADMUsH Witnesses:

E. MEURLING, IRENE LnrKoWrrzr.4

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